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Correcting perspective

One thing you might not necessarily think of as being image cleanup is correcting …for distortion caused by your position relative to a subject. …In other words, perspective correction. When you're photographing a subject such …as a building that's considerably taller than you, or where you're just at a …little bit of an odd angle. One of the first things you'll want to do …when you're capturing the image is to make sure you leave a little bit of room …for the corrections that you apply later. For example you can see on either side of …this church I've left a little bit of extra space, I've also left space above …and below the church. I'm not terribly concerned about the …overall composition. I'd probably crop a little bit off the …bottom, perhaps a little bit off the top. But mostly I cropped a little bit loose …in camera so that I have more room for my correction.…

Because the transformations we'll apply are destructive. …By virtue of the fact that they're stretching and skewing the overall …

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4/23/2012

No matter how careful you are when capturing your photographic images, there are going to be issues that you find later—whether it's little spots or blemishes, or bigger problems like color casts or chromatic aberration. In this workshop, Tim Grey shares his techniques for cleaning up your images with Adobe Photoshop. After getting an overview of image-cleanup concepts and tools, learn how to remove spots, correct color problems, eliminate noise, fix red eye, and much more. Tim also shares advanced techniques like making gradient adjustments, extending the frame, and using multiple exposures to remove people from an image. This course covers all you need to know to remove distractions in an image that keep your genius from shining through.